By which my friend Eleutherios assures me is the Kabbalistic (and poetic) equivalent of Steve Pavlina’s three principles of personal growth; truth (wisdom), love (beauty) and power (strength). This post has been a long time in coming, and in it I’ll explain why in order for me to move towards truth, love and power, I’ve [...]
The Monk Talks: How Understanding Death Teaches Us To Care
(Alvin’s Note: Our dear fellow Life Coach, and passionate personal development extraodinaire, Paiboon Busayarak, has embarked on a 3 month initiation into Buddhist monkhood in his native Thailand. He just sent me this post via email sharing the conversations he’s had with his teacher. The words are his, the grammer tweaking is mine Enjoy!) The [...]
Going Through A Difficult Time
I’m going through a rough patch right now, but without going into the details I’m going to take my own advice from 9 Keys to Overcoming Difficult Times plus number 10: take it easy. I’ll be on a short hiatus and will be publishing Uncle Paiboon’s posts in the meantime.
Empowering Links: Week of 24th December
Best personal development resources for the week: Senia helps you discover the 4 ways you can tell who is happy; self-esteem, a sense of personal control, optimism and extraversion. Business Pundit opens up your eyes on how to network: for introverts. I like ‘at first, you have to kiss a lot of frogs’ and ‘go [...]
What Would A Modern-Day Magician Say About God?
As a student of the esoteric science, specifically the western mysteries, I come across interesting questions from close friends regarding what I do and what I believe in. One of the most recent questions posed to me was an age-old popular one: do I believe in God and is there a ‘divine plan’? It’s a [...]
Introducing A Modern-Day Magician
What would it be like to delve into the mind of an honest to goodness modern-day magician? I’ve known Eleutherios since we were both 15. We shared a common passion for spirituality, I suspect, because we’d both felt that there must be something more than just what we see, hear and feel in this life. [...]
How To Make It Easier To Get Things Done
Do you know what you should do, but still don’t do it? Remember when you picked up your first personal development tip? I did, it was back in ’96 when I started devouring personal growth books like mad. While reading about those principles opened my eyes to new horizons, a few of them I put [...]